Norman Corwin's One World Flight: The Lost Journal of Radio's Greatest Writer

Description

Norman Corwin has long been known as 'Radio's Poet Laureate'. During Corwin's travels to 17 countries in 1946, he kept a journal of his personal thoughts and observations. It was put in a drawer where it remained for decades. More than sixty years after the trip, media historian Michael Keith asked Corwin - who is now in his nineties - if he had kept a log or journal of his One World travels. He had, and his analysis of international communications still rings true today.

About Author

Michael C. Keith is a member of the Communications Department at Boston College. He is the author of over 20 books on the electronic media, including Talking Radio, Voices in the Purple Haze, Signals in the Air, Sounds in the Dark, the classic textbook The Radio Station, and a critically acclaimed memoir The Next Better Place. Keith is the recipient of several awards, including the Stanton Fellow Award. Mary Ann Watson is a professor of Electronic Media & Film Studies at Eastern Michigan University. She earned her Ph.D. in Communications at The University of Michigan in 1983. Watson is the author of The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years, published by Oxford University Press in 1990, which has become a widely referenced work in the literature of media history. She is also the author of Defining Visions: Television and the American Experience in the 20th Century, 2nd edition, published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.